If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private. "
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.
I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.
There is no marriage without engagement
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.